54 QUAILOLOGY - LETTERS & CLIPPINGS. 



Northern road, who was a great admirer of the birds, brought 

 a male from up in the country. The three were kept as an 

 attraction in the window of the restaurant, where thousands of 

 people looked at them and wondered at their domestic nature. 



As spring advanced I noticed the male picking up pieces of 

 straw, dead grass etc. Suspecting they were going to nest, I 

 removed them to a coop on the ground, against the side of the 

 bam. The coop is sixteen feet long, eight feet wide and eight 

 feet high, rat proof. The south and front of coop is half inch 

 mesh wire. Top and sides both sealed. I water them every 

 day and feed screenings, cracked corn and plenty of green 

 stuff. Threw in the Takings of the yard , an armful of straw 

 and fixed several little hiding places and left them in their 

 glory. Allowed no one to disturb them or in the coop. Had 

 water trough so arranged as to fill it from the door without 

 molesting them. 



The result was the last week in June to find thirteen little 

 fellows racing around the coop." 



He now has a large flock of very tame birds and has dispos- 

 ed of a great many at good figures. 



Success With Several Varieties. 



Written eapecially for Quailology. 



To write an article on the culture of quail such as I would 

 like to write would fill a book of many pages but I will try and 

 condense my thoughts so that I can give to you my experience 

 on this subject in the limited space allowed me. 



I have raised quail from the time when they were two or 

 three days old to grown birds, also from the eggs hatched 

 under the mother quail, under the bantam hen, and in the 

 incubator. 



I have been asked a great many times what I found the best, 

 and have answered it thys; it depends a great deal on the per- 



